Timeline: Border Surge Began a Few Months After Obama's First Executive Action on Immigration

breitbart ^ | 8/5/14 | John Sexton

[Nachum]

President Obama's executive actions on immigration did not begin with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in mid-2012. It began in 2011 with his announcement of "prosecutorial discretion" on deportations. A few months later the border patrol noted the first uptick in unaccompanied children at the border.

There has been an ongoing argument in the public sphere over whether or not President Obama's executive action known as DACA is responsible for the current surge of unaccompanied children at the border. GOP members have claimed it is a contributing factor and some note that the June 15, 2012 announcement seems to coincide with the sharpest uptick in children arriving from Central America.

Progressives looking to dismiss this claim have pointed out that the first indications of a surge in the number of children took place in FY2012. Fiscal Year 2012 included the last part of 2011 as well as the first half of 2012, i.e. about eight months before DACA even existed. This, they claim, proves the problem could not have been caused by DACA. For example, this Vox explainer on whether the President's policies encouraged the trend currently reads:

while the Obama administration itself has stressed that it doesn't think DACA is a factor, officials including Vice President Joe Biden have also tried to tell Central American families that children shouldn't come because they won't be eligible for DACA — which reinforces the notion that the two are connected.

However, the influx of unaccompanied children started in the fall of 2011 — DACA wasn't announced until June of 2012.

[Nachum]

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[dragnet2]

During the Bush years, illegals were so emboldened, they marched on most of our major cities en-mass unabated, waving foreign flags in your face, while making threats....

Here is just one of many of those images during the Bush years in Dallas, 2006...

500,000 illegals march on downtown Dallas Texas in 2006, making demands and threats...During Bush's time in power...

All while Bush celebrated cinco de mayo up in the White House...

Lets not forget.

[dragnet2]

It was so utterly out of control during the Bush years, it was discovered Bush's Homeland Security boss Chertoff had people wandering around the inside of his PRIVATE residence who entered the country illegally...

During war time....

Obama is just a continuation of this epic lawless country killing disaster.

[Rome2000]

Communists, moslems, and illegal aliens night just be fresh out of friends when the REAL right takes control in 2016.

The kicker is that the real right might just fix it so that the marxist POS's will be PERMANENTLY NEUTRALIZED.

[Dante3]

This is a sure way to destroy a country. Our military should be on the border protecting us from the invaders. Incredible that the Central American Banana Republics are dictating to us, and we just surrender.

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[forgotten man]

Yep. I hate to admit it, but Clinton was better than Bush on border control. When I rode the Amtrack train from San Diego to Los Angeles in the nineties the Border Patrol agents always boarded the train in San Juan Capistrano and they always rounded up a gaggle of illegals. That came to halt when Bush became president.

[VerySadAmerican]

Stand by! Here come the bushbots!

[Graewoulf]

Now each year, May FIFTH is MEXICAN GO HOME DAY!!!!!!!!

[dalebert]

yes ..they were advertising free money in their home countries. Obama wants you to got to college, ect. all arouond the world.